Kathy, While there are serious disagreements on this list about the relative merits of various single-winner voting methods, I think you will find that most people who have studied the STV form of proportional representation agree that it is a very fair and very good method, and arguably the best in use anywhere today. I can't imagine any thoughtful reformer wanting to throw a monkey wrench into one of the most promising election reform movements in the world today. Go BC-STV!
Terry Bouricius ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Dopp" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [EM] British Colombia considering change to STV > 1. British Colombia considering change to STV (Graham Bignell) It wasn't hard to find a site campaigning against it: http://www.nostv.org/count.html People might also want to warn the BC government about the ugly mess that they would get themselves into by adopting such a fundamentally unfair, inequitable, complex and costly method for counting rank choice votes. The web page to contact the BC government is: http://www.gov.bc.ca/referendum_info/contact/ ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
